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tain the amount specified in this law; that said Hardie made a thorough investigation of the expense necessarily incurred in furnishing said arms and supplies of said five hundred men; and has submitted an impartial report thereon, in which the demands of all persons interested and the national government have been justly examined and decided; and that the said Hardie recommended your honorable bodies to pay certain persons the amount that he found that they had expended in good faith; wherefore your memorialists pray, that an appropriation may be made by your honorable bodies to pay said amount, in accordance with the report of said Hardie.

Approved January 12, 1872.

COUNCIL JOINT MEMORIAL

In relation to the setting apart of the Yellow Stone Lake, &c., as a national

park, &c.

To the honorable, the senate and house of representatives of the United States, in congress assembled:

Your memorialists, the legislative council and house of representatives, composing the legislative assembly of the territory of Montana, would respectfully represent to your honorable bodies that a small portion of the territory of Wyoming, as now constituted, in its extreme north-west corner, is separated from the main portion of the territory by the almost impassable ranges of mountains that divide the head waters of the Madison from those of Snake River on the south, connecting with those dividing the waters of the Yellow Stone from those of Big Horn and Wind rivers on the east; that this portion of Wyoming is only accessible from the side of Montana, contains the heads of streams whose courses lie wholly in Montana, while, through the enterprise of citizens of Montana, it has been thoroughly explored, and its innumerable and magnificent array of wonders in geysers, boiling springs, mud volcanoes, burning mountains, lakes, and waterfalls brought to the attention of the world. Your memorialists would, therefore, urge upon your honorable bodies that the said portion of Wyoming Territory be ceded to Montana, beginning at the place where the one hundred and eleventh meridian of longitude crosses the summit of the main range of the Rocky Mountains, in the southern boundary line of Montana, thence along the summit of the Rocky Mountains, opposite to the head of the Yellow Stone River on one side and the head of Wind River on the other side, thence in a northerly direction along the summit of the divide, between the waters of the Yellowstone River and the waters of

Wind River, Grey Bull River, Stinking River, and Clark's Fork River, to where said divide crosses the forty-fifth parallel of latitude.

Your memorialsts would further urge, that the above described district of country, with so much more of the present territory of Montana as may be necessary to include the Lake, Great Falls, and Cañon of the Yellowstone, the Great Basin of the Madison, with its associated boiling, mineral, and mud springs, as may be determined from the surveys made by Prof. Hayden and party the past season, or to be determined by surveys hereafter to be made, be dedicated and devoted to public use, resort, and recreation for all time to come as a great national park, under such care and restrictions as to your honorable bodies may seem best calculated to secure the ends proposed.

And your memorialists will ever humbly pray, &c.
Approved January 12, 1872.

COUNCIL JOINT MEMORIAL

In relation to a grant of public lands in aid of a territorial university, &c. To the honorable, the senate and house of representatives of the United States, in congress assembled:

Your memorialists, the legislative council and house of representatives, composing the legislative assembly of the territory of Montana, would respectfully urge upon your early attention and favorable consideration, the situation and necessities of this distant territory, in respect to its total lack of higher educational advantages. Our population is widely scattered, except in a few favored localities, while most of them are struggling under heavy burdens of expense and taxation, incident to founding new homes in a wilderness and setting in motion the wheels of local government. Yet, conscious that the present and future welfare of Montana, its productive capacities, its rapid and healthy development, its freedom from pauperism and crime, depend upon the education of its citizens, and those who are to become such by the time we may seek admission to the Union as a state, our people have zealously adopted the principle of universal education, and have enacted laws to carry the same into effect. The burdens necessary to give a common school education to every person within the limits of the territory they have cheerfully assumed and willingly bear, but they feel the necessity of a university, which can supply its teachers and afford training to members of the learned professions, and especially to men of science who may devote themselves to developing the best natural, mineral, and agricultural resources of this territory.

The heavy outlay necessary to supply anything adequate to their wants in this respect impels them, through us, to ask that you will, in accordance with your beneficent policy, heretofore so generally and generously applied in grants of public lands for universities and agricultural colleges in other states and territories, make a similar grant to Montana, proportioned, not only to its necessities, but to its large capacities and future prospects, under such restrictions as to custody and disposition of lands and the funds arising therefrom as your wisdom may suggest.

And so your petitioners will ever humbly and hopefully pray. Approved January 12, 1872.

COUNCIL JOINT RESOLUTION

Appropriating money for the payment of the officers, pro tempore, in the temporary organization of the council and house.

Resolved by the council, the house concurring, That there be, and is hereby, appropriated out of the territorial treasury, from any moneys not otherwise appropriated, the following sums of money, to the following named persons, for services as officers, pro tem., in the temporary organization of the council and house of representatives of the seventh legislative assembly of the territory of Montana, to wit: To A. M. S. Carpenter, chief clerk of the council, twenty-two dollars; to R. E. Arick, assistant clerk of the council, twenty-two dollars; to John Thompson, sergeant-at-arms of the council, eighteen dollars; to H. J. Johnson, fireman of the council, twenty-four dollars; to M. D. Post, doorkeeper of the council, fourteen dollars; to Benjamin Ezekiel, chief clerk of the house, twenty-two dollars; to H. C. Wilkinson, sergeant-at-arms of the house, eighteen dollars; and to Thomas Bennett, fireman of the house, twenty-four dollars. And that the territorial auditor be instructed to draw his warrants on the territorial treasurer for the several sums above specified. Approved December 12, 1871.

COUNCIL JOINT RESOLUTION

Appointing joint committee to call for report of code commission.

Resolved by the council, the house concurring, That a joint committee, one from each house, be appointed to call upon the commission created by council joint resolution number two, passed

January, 1870, for the purpose of revising, classifying, and codifying the general laws of this territory, and request an immediate report to the legislative assembly of the result of their labors. Approved January 12, 1872.

COUNCIL JOINT RESOLUTION

Relating to the employment of clerks by the committees of ways and means and judiciary of the council and house of representatives.

Resolved by the council, the house concurring, That the committees of ways and means and judiciary of the council and house, respectively, be authorized to employ the services of a clerk, if necessary, for the business of such committees; and that there be, and hereby is, appropriated out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twelve dollars each, per day, for the compensation of such clerks: Provided, That the clerks appointed as above provided shall receive pay only for the time they are actually employed in the service of, or under directions of, such committees. And it shall be the duty of the chairmen of the committees employing such clerks to give them their certificate, stating the time that such clerk has been actually employed; and such certificate shall be a sufficient voucher for the auditor of the territory, upon which to draw his warrant on the treasurer for such amount.

Approved December 19, 1871.

COUNCIL JOINT RESOLUTION

Authorizing the committees on printing of the council and house of representatives to contract for necessary printing.

WHEREAS, It appears that the compensation allowed by the general government for printing, for the legislative assembly, is insufficient to enable the secretary to have the same done in a prompt and proper manner; therefore, be it

Resolved by the council, the house concurring herein, That the committees on printing of the house of representatives and council be, and are hereby, authorized to contract, at the cheapest rate, for the necessary printing for the present session, of bills and reports of officers, and that such contract shall relate only to excess of cost of such printing above the amount authorized to be paid therefor by the secretary of the territory.

Approved December 16, 1871.

COUNCIL JOINT RESOLUTION

Relating to the binding of the laws of the seventh session of the legislature of Montana.

WHEREAS, The secretary of Montana is authorized by instructions from the department of the treasury to cause to be published, in book form, one thousand copies of the (laws of the) present session of the legislative assembly of Montana, two hundred and fifty copies of which, only, he is authorized to have bound in law calf, and the balance to be bound in paper covers. And, whereas, Considering that the volume to be published is to contain, in a compact and codified form, all the laws of the territory now in force, it is important that all said volumes be substantially bound in law calf. And, whereas, It is considered that the sum of five hundred and sixtytwo dollars ($562.50) fifty cents, in addition to what is allowed by the federal government, will procure all of said copies to be bound in law calf; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the legislative council of the territory of Montana, the house concurring, That upon its appearing to the auditor of the territory of Montana that the secretary has caused to be bound in law calf seven hundred and fifty copies of said laws, in addition to those authorized to be so bound at (the) expense of the federal government, he be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to issue warrants upon the treasury of the territory of Montana, in the sum of five hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty cents, in the form of, and to draw the interest prescribed in, warrants on the treasury of the territory in other cases. Approved January 12, 1872.

COUNCIL JOINT RESOLUTION

Making an appropriation to G. F. Cope, for printing.

Resolved by the council, the house of representatives concurring, That there be, and is hereby, appropriated out of the territorial treasury, from any money not otherwise appropriated, to G. F. Cope, for printing, as per contract with the printing committees of the council and house of representatives of the seventh legislative assembly of the territory of Montana, the sum of thirteen hundred and fifty-seven dollars; and the territorial auditor is hereby directed to draw his warrant on the treasurer for said

amount.

Approved January 12, 1872.

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